Syllabus
Main topics:
Types of speech impairment
Instrumental analysis of impaired speech
Causes of impaired speech development
Speech acquisition with hearing impairment
Second language acquisition
Third language acquisition
Annotation
The course provides a continuation of the Speech Acquisition I and expands students' awareness of speech disorders and pathologies of speech communication. Both typical and atypical development of speech is still in the centre of attention, however, unlike the preceding course the approach is less descriptive and more analytical.
Practical explorations of speech samples provide an opportunity to compare merit of various phonological approaches with regard to our understanding of developmental aspects of speech.